The Story of an Hour

In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, it seems to reach out to many people who might have every felt trapped in a relationship. Most people who recieve news about their loved one dying would grieve. However in Mrs. Mallard's case she finally felt free and untroubled. In paragraph 5 I believe it is stating how she now felt young again, she felt as if she was an entirely new person with a purpose. I believe Chopin may have used the passage "suspension of intelligent thought" (193) because Mrs. Mallard was not in her conscious mind. She could feel but not think clearly at the moment. When the passage "She did not stop to ask if it were not a monstrous joy that held her" (194) refers to how she knew what she felt but could not think about what she was feeling, she was too overcomed with joy. My favorite passage in the story would have to be "There would be no one to live for during those coming years. She would live for herself." (194). It just goes to show that even in times of happiness or sorrow it is your life that you are living and you need to remember that it has its ups and downs. She although is sad at first and then overcome with joy she realizes that she needs to live for herself now that there is no one to look after any longer.